Heavily illustrated with black and white images on nearly every two-page spread, this visual history of England emphasizes the evolution of democratic institutions and the creation of a social order ...(Read More)

The political upheaval of the mid-17th century has no parallel in English history. The monarchy and the House of Lords were abolished, to be replaced by a republic and military rule. The Church of ...(Read More)

With its towering peaks and wide-open spaces, Great Britain's Lake District is one of the nation's favorite getaways, but this was not always the case, as the author of The Sun King's Garden ...(Read More)

Immortalized by Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell, and William Wordsworth, the English village has become one of the defining symbols of British history and tradition. Martin Wainwright looks at the ...(Read More)

In July 1944, 32-year-old Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest intending to rescue the last major Jewish population in Europe from extermination at the hands of Adolf Eichmann and ...(Read More)

Prepared for Britain's Air Ministry in 1951 and written by a former prisoner of war who himself had tried to escape, this once-secret account of POW escapes draws upon firsthand experiences of ...(Read More)

Surrounded by steel palisades and barbed-wire fences, patrolled by dogs and heavily armed guards, Germany's Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp was run by the brutal Kommandant Karl Niemeyer. The British ...(Read More)

Ethan Allen has become legendary in the annals of the Revolutionary era, not least for his daring raid on Fort Ticonderoga in the predawn hours of May 10, 1775. But lost in his myth is the fact that ...(Read More)

Nearly 500 years after his death, Leonardo da Vinci embodies the concept of the "Renaissance man" more fully than any other individual. This fast-paced, informal biography tells the often-surprising ...(Read More)

In the 18th century, exploration entered a new phase; the greatest explorers were motivated more by scientific inquiry than by commercial interest, and they set out to make a full record of ...(Read More)

The immigrant experience and cultural contribution of Italian Americans are celebrated here in a remarkable visual history, illustrated with 500 photographs, documents, and ephemera from the Library ...(Read More)

From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine and the Selma-Montgomery march, thousands of ordinary people made up the American civil rights movement in its founding decade. Their stories ...(Read More)